“People are leaving [California] to go to places that once were known as ‘hell hot Texas’ or ‘desert Nevada’ that have become paradises in their mind—and we took paradise and turned it into hell,” said one researcher in EpochTV’s new documentary “Leaving California: The Untold Story,” which premiered on April 21.
More than 700,000 people left California from April 2020 to July 2022, according to U.S. Census Bureau data.
The fact that hundreds of thousands left, “in light of California being such a wonderful place is … unbelievable!” another researcher said in the film.
The remarks by Victor Davis Hanson, a historian at the Hoover Institute, and Jim Doti, president emeritus and professor of economics at Chapman University, encapsulate the biggest, unprecedented question facing Californians: why are people leaving the paradise?…